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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Celebrating Raymond Chandler's 128th birthday with a noir book and bus tour sale

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On July 23, 1888, Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago, a smart, sensitive kid dealt a strange deck that would, in time, make him...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Noir scribes canoodle at the 37th Annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show

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It was a packed house at the Glendale Civic Auditorium on April 3 as collectors of pulp fiction, vintage paperbacks, weird art and exploi...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Kept Girl Kept Days book sale - Kindle and Paperback editions

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When I plotted The Kept Girl , I chose to set the action over seven sweltering summer days in late August/early September, 1929. To comm...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

A Conjurer's Guide to Lost Los Angeles

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Bank of Italy lobby, 1923 When writing The Kept Girl , I drew on historic photographs and postcards as source material for many locatio...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Cover Girl

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Over the holidays, J. Kingston Pierce's The Rap Sheet blog polled its crime fiction-loving readers to name their favorite genre book ...
Friday, December 19, 2014

KPCC's "Serial" Season 1 finale and debrief at the Crawford Family Forum

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A lively conversation on the complex legal, ethical and journalistic issues raised by the podcast Serial was held on December 18, 2014 a...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Holiday gifts... on the noir side

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Stumped for what to give the true crime and mystery lover in your life? Perhaps a personalized, autographed copy of The Kept Girl , Kim Co...